https://xcancel.com/dril/status/213849618415484929

The tweets in question:

'Political differences' are not the same thing as spewing hateful rhetoric on a daily basis, and refusing to mourn a life devoted to that cause is not the same thing as celebrating gun violence. Just so we're 100% clear on that.

"He was a father". Half of y'all didn't give a DAMN about doing anything to stop gun violence when the victims of mass shootings were LITERAL children. And those kids weren't bigots spreading genocidal propaganda, or a mindset he directly fed into with this Holy Grail of Ironies: (image of Charlie Kirk quote that gun death is worth it for the 2A)

If you're saddened by today's "political violence," horrified by the video, or repulsed by my response, ask yourself why your reaction was different when it came to school shootings, mass deportations or the HUNDREDS of videos of horrific murders in Gaza (which Kirk cheered on)

Truly don't care if you think it's insensitive or poor timing to decline to respect an evil man who died. Too many of you are more concerned with being polite and appearing to be good people rather than showing some damn backbone and standing on principal to condemn hate

/r/nba with some surprisingly decent takes. Also some right-wing tears every now and then.

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Bay Area commuters may see devastating cuts to transit service because Gov. Gavin Newsom is backtracking on a promise to provide a critical $750 million loan to BART, Muni and other regional transit agencies, local lawmakers say.

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Without that funding, the senators say, BART will have to close stations and limit train service on many routes to once an hour. Muni could face a 50% reduction in frequency on many lines. As a result, freeway traffic would balloon, leading to traffic jams and longer car commutes, they say.

I thought I saw some beanis graffiti the other day, but it turned out it said "beaver."

This could get pretty funny.

So, Kawhi. The tl;dr is that Steve Ballmer and the Los Angeles Clippers gave him $29 million for a "no-work contract with a now-bankrupt environmental company as a form of payment to circumvent the NBA’s salary rules."

The company is called Aspiration. Now, where have I heard that name before? Oh, right - from the guy the Democrats put in charge of "Project 2029," a longtime Clintonite.

[Andrei Cherny's] most recent project before this was a scandal-ridden corporate venture. For nine years, Cherny was the chief executive of celebrity-backed fintech firm Aspiration, which claimed to be democratizing investing by making it affordable for ordinary people and, in the process, being “in the business of fighting the climate crisis.”

In reality, as a series of exposés from ProPublica and others made clear, the firm sold itself through pathological deception: it boasted that it had planted thirty-five million trees, but counted twenty-three million that hadn’t actually been planted; it claimed that it had five million customers, but the actual number was a little less than six hundred thousand; it let customers round each purchase up to pay for planting a tree, but often pocketed many of the proceeds; it rewarded purchases from companies it deemed sustainable, but were in reality often pollutive; it trumpeted the chance to pay no fee on its investment fund, but actually charged a higher fee than many better performing funds; and far from being “one hundred percent fossil-fuel free,” that fund invested least in renewable energy while owning shares in a number of dirty companies.

The podcast that broke the Kawhi news, Pablo Torre Finds Out, goes into Cherny and Aspiration's political connections at length, and plays an ad Bill Clinton cut for Cherny when the latter was running for Congress. "He's innovative. He's creative. So, I trust him to get our economy going, and you should, too."

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Crested auklets are native to the Alaskan Islands and eastern Siberia. Both male and females have bright bills, which are fluorescent, and during breeding season, the same curly head plumage. In courtship, females bury their heads in the males’ tangerine-scented necks, known as “ruff-sniffing,” as the males puff out their chests and honk with gusto. The birds are even known for what the Audubon Society calls “rambunctious sex parties,” in which groups of up to 20 crowd in to watch a pair mate.

The crested auklet at the Farallons would have no such luck. He was the only one seen for miles around, known as a vagrant or a bird that somehow drifts away from normal migration routes. Crested auklets rarely stray from the northern Pacific Ocean, and one has not been spotted in California since 1995, off Bodega Head in the Sonoma Coast. Before that one was seen in Marin County in 1979, according to Rare Birds of California, which confirms sightings.

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